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Congo
Brazza’s neglected Air Afrique staff

Nine years after the demise of the pan-African airline company Air Afrique, several dozen employees are still pursuing their claims for compensation and repatriation.

Subscribers only Politics 30.11.2011

Congo
Congo's costly phantom embassies

A surprise audit of the Congolese treasury department recently brought to light overhead payments that had been made to non-existent Congolese embassies.

Subscribers only Politics 30.11.2011

Cameroon
Le Monde’s Biya puff piece angers staff

An “advertorial” in Le Monde singing the praises of Cameroonian President Paul Biya has sparked outrage among the French newspaper’s staff.

Subscribers only Politics 30.11.2011

Central African Republic
IMF whips treasury into shape

Four months after complaining about Central African Republic’s economic management, Washington was back in Bangui in November, but not to sign a blank cheque.

Subscribers only Politics 30.11.2011

Congo
Economic zone warfare in full swing

Furious that it has been pipped to the post by [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.11.2011

Gabon
Rent arrears in Brazil

The Gabonese embassy in Brazil was closed at the beginning [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.11.2011

Cameroon
Samuel Eto’o (Eto’o Telecom)

Cameroon’s international soccer star Samuel Eto’o Fils’s new telephone company [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.11.2011

DRC
Tanganyika pegged out at last

Although hardly anybody noticed it at the time, a decree numbered 017 that oil minister Celestin Mbuyu Kabango signed on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.11.2011

Cameroon
An outlet for Sanaga's gas

The World Bank has approved a $168 million loan for a power plant at Kribi. It will be supplied by gas from the Sanaga field being developed by Perenco.

Subscribers only Energy 29.11.2011

DRC
SNEL under outside management

Congo-K’s Societre National d’Electricite is on the point of losing full control over its affairs. An outside operator is about to be chosen to help run it.

Subscribers only Energy 29.11.2011

DRC
BHP’s smelter: ball is in ADB’s court

After displaying renewed interest in building an aluminum smelter in Lower Congo (it signed a "consolidated memorandum of understanding" with [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.11.2011

Burundi | Bujumbura
Iran asked to invest in Burundi mines

During a visit to Tehran, Burundi's foreign minister, Terence Nsanze, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.11.2011

DRC
Damocles sword over Gecamines

The prospect of an audit of all of Gecamines’ partnerships [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.11.2011

Gabon
Bongo’s party headed for landslide

Certain of victory in the upcoming parliamentary elections, the ruling PDG will profit politically even further from the recent death of Pierre Mamboundou.

Subscribers only Politics 16.11.2011

Cameroon
Legal spat at Douala University

Renowned law professor James Mouangue Kobila is in hot pursuit of justice minister Maurice Kamto, whom he has accused of plagiarism.

Subscribers only Politics 16.11.2011

Congo
Sassou and Bongo, green-eyed

Nine months away from the Rio+20 Earth Summit, Brazzaville and Libreville are desperately trying to outdo one another in the environmental stakes.

Subscribers only Politics 16.11.2011

Gabon
Stadium lights out

A match between Brazil and Gabon on November 10 had [...]

Subscribers only Politics 16.11.2011

Congo
Asperbras sets up shop in Congo-B

After Agri SA, the South African farmers association which acquired [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.11.2011

Cameroon
PROTAIS AYANMGA AMANG (E.Cam)

The employers’ organisation Entreprises du Cameroun (E.CAM), headed by insurance [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.11.2011

Congo
DJIBRIL BOPAKA (CSPC)

The chairman of the employers’ organisation Conseil Superieur du Patronat [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.11.2011

DRC
Sinohydro to help Kabila in Kivu

The announcement that two new dams are to be built in North Kivu can only provide a boost to outgoing president Joseph Kabila's election campaign.

Subscribers only Energy 15.11.2011

DRC
Adolphe Muzito

With only two weeks to go before crucial elections, prime minister Adolphe Muzito has once again found himself under fire [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.11.2011

Chad
Secret talks on crude

Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that Chad president Idriss Deby [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.11.2011

DRC | Lubumbashi
Elizabeth Dipuo Peters

Elizabeth Dipuo Peters, South Africa's energy minister, initialed a letter [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.11.2011

DRC
Kinshasa 11/11

A delegation from Belgium’s Musee Royal d’Afrique Centrale and led by Daniel Baudet is gleaning data in Lower Congo province [...]

Free access Mining 08.11.2011

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